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Nadat Harry Palmer (Caine) de geheime dienst heeft verlaten, slaagt zijn ex-chef er op listige wijze in hem toch nog een opdracht te laten uitvoeren. Tegenstander is ex-generaal Begley, een fanatieke anti-communist, die Rusland vanuit Finland wil vernietigen met een elektronisch brein. Palmer krijgt hulp van Sovjet-agenten Dorléac en Homolka. Deze derde Palmer-film, na THE IPCRESS FILE en FUNERAL IN BERLIN, is totaal onbegrijpelijk en demonstreert al de barokke filmstijl die later Russell's kenmerk zou worden maar deze film haast de afgrond in sleurt. De roman van Len Deighton werd geadapteerd door John McGrath. Het camerawerk van Billy Williams is soms verbluffend mooi, maar dat redt de film niet. André De Toth was uitvoerend producent. Gefilmd in Panavision. 

Billion Dollar Brain is a 1967 British Technicolor espionage film directed by Ken Russell and based on the novel of the same name by Len Deighton. The film features Michael Caine as secret agent Harry Palmer, the anti-hero protagonist. The "brain" of the title is a sophisticated computer[2] with which an anti-communist organisation controls its worldwide anti-Soviet spy network.
Billion Dollar Brain is the third of the Harry Palmer film series, preceded by The Ipcress File (1965) and Funeral in Berlin (1966). It is the only film in which Ken Russell worked as a mainstream 'director-for-hire', and the last film of Françoise Dorléac. A fourth film in the series, an adaptation of Horse Under Water, also to be released by United Artists, was tentatively planned but never made.[3] Caine played Palmer in two later films, Bullet to Beijing and Midnight in Saint Petersburg.
The film's credits show the title as "$1,000,000,000,000,000,000.00" and "BILLION DOLLAR BRAIN" – 1 followed by 18 zeros is actually one quintillion in the short scale or one trillion in the long scale.